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b. Talent should dictate who could be a champion at a USLTA
tournament, not race.
c. There are players in the U.S. Nationals who do not deserve to
be there.
d. The USLTA should do away with invitations and make the
tournament open to anybody.
e. The ATA and USTLA should merge for the benefit of the sport.
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429.
Why did Althea’s friend suggest that she try lawn tennis?
a. Lawn tennis is a more competitive game than paddle tennis.
b. The friend preferred playing lawn tennis.
c. There was more money to be made playing lawn tennis than
paddle tennis.
d. The friend thought Althea might enjoy playing lawn tennis, and
excel at it.
e. The friend was looking for a tennis partner.
430.
All of the following statements are supported by the passage
EXCEPT
a. Alice Marble was a white tennis player.
b. Dr. Eaton’s guidance helped Althea’s career.
c. Althea won the New York Girls Singles championship when she
fifteen.
d. The public tennis courts in Wilmington were segregated.
e. Althea Gibson won more Grand Slam titles than any other
female tennis player.
Questions 431–439 are based on the following passage.
The following passage chronicles the 1919 “Black Sox” baseball scandal.
Professional baseball suffered during the two years the United States
was involved in World War I. Many Americans who were preoccupied
with the seriousness of the war raging overseas had little concern for
the trivialities of a baseball game. After the war ended in 1919, many
Americans wanted to put those dark years behind them and get back
to the normal activities of a peaceful life. One of those activities was
watching baseball. In the summer of 1919, ballparks that just one year
earlier had been practically empty were now filled daily with the sights
and sounds of America’s favorite pastime. That year, both the Cleve-
land Indians and New York Yankees were two of the strongest teams
in baseball’s American League, but one team stood head and shoulders
above the rest: The Chicago White Sox.
The Chicago White Sox, called The White Stockings until 1902,
were owned by an ex-ballplayer named Charles Comiskey. Between the
years of 1900 and 1915 the White Sox had won the World Series only
once, and Comiskey was determined to change that. In 1915, he pur-
chased the contracts of three of the most promising stars in the league:
outfielders “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and “Happy” Oscar Felsch, and sec-
ond baseman Eddie Collins. Comiskey had only to wait two years for his
plan to come to fruition; the 1917 White Sox, playing in a park named
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